PSA Flight 1771 Crash Site

 crash site, historical layer / disappeared object, aircraft crash site

On Dec. 7, 1987, disgruntled former US Air employee David Burke bought a one-way ticket on PSA Flight 1771 to San Francisco and used his old identification badge to circumvent security and smuggle a .44 caliber magnum handgun and six rounds on board.

He knew the supervisor who had fired him for drinking on the job and misappropriating funds was on board, and according to investigators, Burke shot the supervisor, a flight attendant, and then the pilot, sending the plane straight into a North County hillside off Old Creek Road about a mile south of Hwy. 46.

Today nothing distinguishes the crash site, which looks like any of the bucolic rolling hills along this spot of Old Creek Road equidistant between Cambria, Cayucos, and Templeton.

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